This week I went to a concert for pregnant women organized by Babypod. It was hilarious as on arrival I went to the bathroom at the events hall and the show was beginning here, in front of the mirror. It was filled with lots of pregnant women with big bellies who were entering to...
Music from the beginning of life Archive
The Story of a Discovery (3) – The scientific research starts
(3) – THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STARTS – I don’t know if you are aware of all the steps required to prepare a clinical trial. It’s long and quite complicated. It has to be done by experts, and I’m not one. It has to be approved by an Ethics Committee formed by heath personnel, lawyers,...
The Story of a Discovery (2) – The first tests continue
(2) THE FIRST TESTS CONTINUE – You are probably surprised with what you have just seen. We repeated the experiment with more patients and we discovered the following: that the fetuses react with mouth and tongue movements when they hear music… they are trying to vocalize. But the only way for the fetuses to...
The Story of a Discovery (1)
This is the story of how we discovered what babies hear inside the uterus and how they react when they hear sound. I’ll explain it step by step. (1) WE HAD TO PLAY MUSIC TO THE FETUSES After achieving better results in in-vitro fertilization by applying music vibrations in the incubators for embryos, we...
What is the Meaning of Music?
At Institut Marquès we are conducting a very important line of research on the effect of music on humans, which goes from the day we become an oocyte until the moment we’re born. I’ll inform you about these discoveries as we’re publishing them. Some of them are so amazing that I had to read...
Concert for embryos
Antonio Orozco gave a private live concert to the very fortunate 380 embryos that were in process of development, at the time, at our in vitro fertilization laboratory. I would like to share this video with all of you because the experience has been exciting! His first song was called “I’m made of tiny...
IVF to the Beat of the Music. We Have Made our Embryos Dance
I couldn’t imagine the enormous impact of the publication of the results of the In vitro Fertilization with music, both among colleagues from other centers, our patients and the media. Once the scientific study was presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction’s congress (ESHRE) in July 2013, the doctors were dying of desire to talk...
Music enhances In Vitro Fertilisation
We’ve conducted a study showing that musical vibrations increase the chances that the sperm fertilises the egg, ie that music improves IVF. We’ll present these findings at the European Congress of Sterility (ESHRE) that will take place from the 7th to the 10th of July in London. The idea came thanks to you, because...